Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

So for World Menopause Day in World Menopause Month,

Rebecca Lewis and I decided to do a joint podcast. So Rebecca, as many of you know,

is a very good friend, but she's also a work colleague and she's a co-founder of Newsome Health.

And she props me up in many ways. We both encourage each other. And also, we both learn from

each other as well. we have professional curiosity that keeps

this open-minded we challenge each other and we're learning all the time so rebecca's been on the

podcast before she's on it again and i'm sure she'll be on it in the future so welcome rebecca thank you

oh it's lovely to be here again thank you you, Louise. Always good to talk to you.

Ah, so we're learning all the time as doctors. We learn from the evidence. And as many of you know,

medicine is a science and an art. And the science is the knowledge and the art is individualizing

care for patients. And certainly we're very patient-centered and everything that we do.

But we thought today, oh, I thought today that we would just sort of go back a bit to basics

actually because there's been so many questions that I get through my social media.

We get from patients in the clinic.

So we thought we'd just go back to basics and a lot of questions actually about hormones.

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